and inscriptions had been taken away before the visitation of Philpot and Owen in 1634. The testern is groined, and is supported by four marble pillars; at each corner of the cornice on the eastern end is a lion's head: they seem to be originals, and are still in good preservation. The other portions of the cornice are debased Gothic, very rudely carved. In the centre on the south side is a boss with the figure of a woman playing on the virginals. In other bosses are oak-leaves in a circle, with acorns at the four corners; three lilies, emblematical of the Annunciation, or three poppies, emblematical of Death; at the west end are the figures of men holding scrolls: all of these appear to be of later date than the main part of the tomb-as late indeed as the time of Elizabeth, apparently confirming the tradition that the tomb of her relative was repaired by the order of the queen after one of her Sussex journeys. These monuments are strong illustrations of the truth of quaint Sir Thomas Browne's words, that "Gravestones tell truth scarce 40 years; generations pass whilst some trees stand; and old families last not three oaks." The Braose and the Hoo are gone, and, in the words of our last and greatest Sussex poet, "Oblivion will steal silently The remnant of their fame." VIII. 17 ob. 8 March, Dernell,117 bu. in Island of Rhodes. da. of Alexander, King of Scots; bu. at the Temple, Dounke, in Scotland; ob. 15 Mar... Sir Thomas Hoo, Knt.; ob. 18 Sept. 1380; bu. at St. Albans. da. of Fulk Fitzwarren; ob. 2 Sept. 1344; bu. in the Grey-Friars, Dunstable. Isabel, da. and heiress of John de St. Leger; bo. 25 May, 1319; m. 9 Ed.3, 1335; ob. 22 July, 1393; bu. at St. Albans. John Hoo (Le Neve MS. Chauncy's Herts. So. Ant.) Jane, only child: mar. Wm. Walkelyn. Sir Rob. Hoo, Knt.; ob. unmarried. 116 Elsewhere called Roger; there are several charters of Roger Hoo: Harl. MSS. See also Chron. Joc. de Brakelond, pp. 88, 135; anno 1200. 117 Darvogilda.-Vincent, B. 2, p. 186. 118 William (?). 119 He had a brother, whose name is not given, and by Rymer is said to have had a son, William, living 1388 (Rym. Foed. vol. iii, pt. 4, p. 16); who must have died S.P. See Inq. Bedf. on "Thomas Hoo," 2 Hen. VII. death of Thomas Hoo, in 1486. Inq. Bedf. William Gage; æt. 40 at death of Thomas Hoo, in 1486. husband. Oct.1486. 3 Edith Richard Harcourt. Miles Harcourt. Miles Harcourt æt. 18 years at death of Thos. Hoo, in 1486. 120 Proved in Archd. Court of Norwich, Regist. Haydone, fol. 5. 121 Dugdale, in error, makes her the 1st wife of her son, who had only 2 wives. 122 Inq. on Tho. Hoo, 2 H.VII; and Vincent's Sus., MSS., Coll. Arms, p.99. 123 Called Jane by Dugdale: both Inq. are Anna. In a MS. Pedigree among the Twysden MSS., Dugdale makes Eleanor the eldest daughter. EXTRACTS FROM THE STEYNING CHURCH-BOOK. BY THE REV. THOMAS MEDLAND. READ AT HORSHAM, JULY 12, 1855. Some THE following extracts are made from an old book which is kept in the church chest at Steyning, and is still in use for entering the yearly accounts of the churchwardens, and any other important matters connected with the church. extracts from the parish records, relating to the demolition of the church, have been given in a former volume (V, p. 121), and it has been thought that additional extracts might now prove interesting, as they refer to some obsolete customs of the olden time. The first entry, which is still legible, is the following, and it stands on a page by itself: "THE RENTALL OF LANDS PERTEYN YNG TO THE CHURCH. Rd. of thomas benett of chancton for a gate place It. of thomas parson's shoppe It. of ii shoppes in the hands of peter peto It. of Peter Farnfold for iiii acres of pastur It. of my lady of Sion 3 It. of Wylem Pellett for a shoppe 1 These lands were in the parish of West Grinstead, and it is probable that the wax lights afterwards named were provided, in part at least, from this rental. They are now alienated from the parish, as are all the shops and houses here enumerated. 2 This land still belongs to the parish, S. d. iiii vi viii viii vi iii iiii ii viii xiii iv and the pasture land is let for more than £4 per acre. During the time of the great Rebellion it was appropriated by one of the Farnfold family; but a commission was issued from the Court of Chancery, in the reign of Charles II, which obliged him to restore it. 3 After the suppression of the alien |